Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Introduction

Python comes with a feature that is rarely shipped with a programming language: a built-in graphical user interface (GUI) library.

Python ships with a working version of the Tk widgets toolkit, which can be controlled through the tkinter module provided by the standard library.

The Tk toolkit actually is used through a simple language called Tcl. All Tk widgets can be controlled through the Tcl commands.

Most of these commands are very simple, and take the following form:

classname widgetid options

For example, something such as the following would lead to a button (identified as mybutton) with a red "click here" text:

button .mybutton -fg red  -text "click here"

As those commands are usually relatively simple, Python ships with ...